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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. According to the press release: Oracle In-Memory Consumption-Driven Planning helps organizations understand and respond on a daily basis to true end-customer demand thus helping to reduce bullwhip effect and to improve on-shelf availability and inventory turns. .

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7-11, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Meanwhile, the annualized turnover rate at large truckload fleets rose two percentage points to 99 percent in the second quarter of 2013, according to the latest edition of American Trucking Associations’ Trucking Activity Report. General availability of SAP Customer Activity Repository is planned for the first quarter of 2014.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4 Inventory Management in a High Inflation Environment ; Clint Reiser. Instead, they are likely to carry higher levels of inventory as a lower cost alternative to minimizing disruptions. Opinions of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

Walmart would not have the ability to provide such low prices and have consistent inventory in the over 5,000 stores in the United States and over 1.3 restaurant industry made in 2013. However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant’s supply chain excellence. ” Walmart states early on.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement. Resiliency is the tightness of the pattern, or the reliability of operating margin and inventory turns results.

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IOT SupplyChain Tools (Internet of Things)

ModusLink Corporation

Traditionally, inventory counts were a complex exercise done manually about once a year but RFDI technology enables retailers such as Macy’s to monitor stock monthly bringing accuracy from 60% to over 90%. Barcode label: Plenty of operations happening inside the warehouse rely on administrative documentation. & (2013).

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Impact of Demand Sensing on Inventory Levels. Over this period of 2013-2014 Shell made good progress on inventory, but faced unprecedented supply price volatility. The implementation was very successful.